Bag-holder.



PATENTED JULY 23; 1907.

s. B. DURHAM. BAG HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED TUE-I19, 1908.

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S. B. DURHAM.

BAG HOLDER.

APPLIOATION FILED JULY 19. 1906.

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UNITED STATES SAMUEL B. DURHAM, OF

BEAVEROREEK, ILLINOIS.

BAG-HOLDER.

Application filed July 19.

the United States, residing at Beavercreek, in the county of Bond, State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bag-Holders;-

and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will en able others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention has relation to bag or grain-sack holders for facilitating the filling of grain into sacks in the granary, in mills and elevators, and all places where it may be found desirable to use it.

It is the object of the invention to provide such improvements as will enhance the usefulness of bag holders and render the same easily portable and at the same time make them strong and durable, so that they may not break or give way while in use and thus cause loss of time and wastage of grain.

Another object of the improvements is to increase the facility with which grain-sack holders may be handled, to the end that a greater amount of work can be done with them in a given time than heretofore, and that the said work can be performed with greater ease and less annoyance.

The nature of my invention is embodied in the improvement of parts and features, and combinations of parts, as is shown in the annexed drawings, forming a part of this specification, and in view of which drawings the invention will first be described in detail and then pointed out with distinctness and particularity in the concluding claims.

Of the said drawings, Figure 1 is a front elevation of my invention with a bag in position thereon ready for filling, and standing on the bag platform. Fig. 2 is a side view of the same. Fig. 3 is a vertical section omitting the bag. Fig. 4 is a side view of the hopper, partly in section.

Similar figures of reference designate similar parts or features, as the case may be, wherever they occur.

In the drawings, 10 designates a hopper of suitable size, and having flaring sides and ends for the reception of a bottomless box forming a chute 11 that is connected to the bottom of the hopper 10 and is equipped with means for attaching the top of the sack thereto, and for suspending the attached sack from the standard 12 to be presently described. The hopper andchute may both be made of white pine wood, as being light in weight and sufficiently strong.

13 designates hooks or points on the outside of the chute for the attachment of the tops of the sacks and to hold them in place while being filled.

14 is a metallic plate provided with holes for the reception of screws or bolts by which to attach it-to the back of the chute, and to which plate and the chute the metallic bar 15, having an angular fastening plate 16,

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 23, 1907.

1906. Serial No. 326,958.

is attached by bolts or by riveting its fastening plate to the plate 14.

12 designates the sack-holding standard which is made of Wood and is about five feet high and has a slot 17 cut through it about two feet from the floor 18 and two or three inches from the top.

19 designate iron bars of a length sufficient to extend from side to side of the standard and having a hole 20 in each for the passage of the shanks of wood screws by which the bars are secured to the opposite sides of the sack-holding standard 12. The said bars 19 are secured to the said standard alternately, first on one side and then on the other with a space of about three-sixteenths of an inch between two that form a pair, and a wider space between each two pairs.

Under this construction, when it is desired to secure a hopper and chute to a standard for the attachment of a sack, the bar 15 of the chute will be passed through the slot 17 of the standard 12, between a pair of bars 19 that will secure the adjustment of the sack 21 to the right height when its upper edge is hooked on the pins 13 of the chute 11, and the sack will be filled.

The construction comprises a sack platform under which there is nailed transversely across the floor boards two strips 22, and parallel with the floor boards 18 below the strips 22 is a timber 23, provided with gains 24 that fit over the strips 22, and is most securely fixed in place. One end of the timber 23 projects beyond the ends of the floor boards 18 forming the platform, and this projecting end is provided with a mortise 25 into which the tenon 25 on the lower end of the sack-holding standard 12 fits with exactness, and with the platform turned right side up the tenon 25 of the standard 12 is, as stated, fixed in the mortise 25 and the complete apparatus is set up ready for all of the uses of which it is capable.

The mode of operation of the improvements and parts connected therewith has been so fully explained in describing the construction and relationship of parts and features as to leave little more to be said.

The advantages gained by the improvements are many. It should be stated that the invention is simple, quick of adjustment, and of the attachment and removal of sacks or bags; it is light in weight, without cumbersome complications, and easily portable, and it is adapted to be used in almost any place where its presence is desirable in order to make it convenient to sack up grain of any kind. The platform, though small, provides ample room for the work required of it, and without it the arrangement of means for holding the sack would be difficult and necessitate, in some cases, at least, the marring of floors that it would be desirable to have left undisturbed.

In order to hold sacks securely to the chute, a device is provided which consists of a boltA passed through one end of the chute and extending outwardly there from and having engaged therewith a sleeve B having a flange C at its inner end which rests against the end of the chute. A lever D has an opening E in one end, in which the sleeve is engaged for movement of the lever thereupon, and between its ends the lever is enlarged or broadened laterally, as shown at F, A spring G is engaged with the bolt, resting at one end against the lever D and at its other end against a wing nut H engaged with the outer end of the bolt and which is adjustable to vary the tension of the spring. The lever is located for movement to bring its broadened portion F into and out of engagement with one of the points 13, and may be also raised to lie above the upper edge of a sack engaged with the points. The purpose of this device is to take up slack in sacks having mouths larger than the chute 13, and in attaching a sack, the pins are engaged therethrough, the surplus of the sack being folded over to lie against the chute and in position for engagement thereover of the broadened portion F of the lever D when the latter is moved downwardly, and it will be understood that the spring G will hold the lever yieldably against movement away from the chute so as to clamp the folds of a sack between it and the chute, the pin 13 above referred to, limiting the movement of the lever in one direction, as will be readily understood.

What is claimed as the invention, is:

1. In a sack-holder, the combination with a chute having a sacl engaging point, of a member pivoted to the chute and movable slidably toward and away from the chute, and a spring arranged to hold the member yield ably against movement away from the chute, said point being located in position to limit the movement of the member in one direction.

2. In a sack-holder, the combination with a chute arranged for the reception of a bag, of a bolt engaged in the wall of the chute and extending therefrom, a sleeve engaged with the bolt and having a flange resting against the chute, a bag-engaging member pivotally and slidably mounted upon the sleeve, a spring engaged with the bolt and resting against the outer face of the member, and a nut engaged with the bolt beyond the spring, said member and chute being arranged to receive a bag therebetween.

In testimony whereof, I aflix my signature, in presence of two witnesses.

SAMUEL B. DURHAM.

Witnesses J. B. HARTMAN,

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T. L. X HARTMAN.

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